Unilateral ECT as a Test for Cerebral Dominance, with a Strategy for Treating Left-handers
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 119 (548), 79-83
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.119.548.79
Abstract
The growing adoption of ECT given unilaterally to the right hemisphere in right-handed patients, in preference to the classical bilateral treatment, is due to its shortening of the duration of post-treatment confusion, to its superiority in preserving memory and learning assessed three months after the start of treatment (Halliday et al., 1968) and to its therapeutic equivalence. (For a critical assessment of published results, see d'Elia, 1970.)Keywords
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